Universal Discredit

Men have always deceived themselves
about sex, sexuality, and sensuality
-both their own and everyone else's.

If the confusion were just their own
it would matter less than it does,
but as it is, the history of patriarchy
makes the confusion a problem for everyone.

What the older man never tells the younger,
who they are meant to instruct
about their own (shared) sexual nature
and about what women half-expect
keeps on not getting passed on.

There is a life beyond failing wisdom,
and religious faiths that remove curiosity
and put ignorance and dogma in it's place.
But finding it requires.....